Lesson Template

Desired Results
Relevant Minnesota or Nat’l Content Standards:


2.3

Analyze policies that support consumer rights and responsibilities.
Learning Objective: Key Understanding(s) you intend students to obtain:

How Scams impact society.

Why avoiding scams is important to protecting your credit.

How companies “Hook” people and make money from the scams.
Assessment Evidence
What do you want your students to know?


Types of scams

Preventative measures for avoidance of scams

The 3 parts of a scam – The hook, The story, and the Lesson
What do you want students to be able to do?


Avoid scams

Identify scams

Protect personal info from being hacked
Group Accountability (Formative)
How will you check to see whether your class has met your learning objectives?

By performing their skits, I will be able to assess whether or not they understood the concept of the scam.

They should also be able to explain the 3 parts of their scam to the class.

Learning Plan
What key vocabulary/language will students need to know to meet the learning objective?

Voucher
Insecurity
Chip
Pin
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
How will you teach this key vocabulary to enable students to meet the learning objective?

After each skit, reflective questions using the vocabulary will help assess their understanding.
What is the Essential/Guiding Question(s) for this Lesson? (It should correlate to your learning objective.)

What are scams and why is it important to know how to avoid them?
How will you differentiate for all the learners (ELL, Sp. Ed., poverty, gifted, etc.) in your class?
Differentiation Options: questions, stems, sentence frames, strategies, etc.

While working in groups, students can mentor one another to develop skits and present.
Materials/Resources Required:

Youtube Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDhOEKpS3oI
8 scam info sheets
List of reflective questions
Scam activity note sheet
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
Method/Strategy
(What will you do? What do you expect students to do? Include set induction and closing.)
Time Allotment




Play youtube video for students.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDhOEKpS3oI
1 min.
Introduce lesson about scams.
1 min.
Explain skit activity and how to present.
1 min.
Students break into 8 groups and using the scam info sheets, create a skit to perform to the class.
12 min.
Students then perform skits and follow along with the note sheet to record tips for each scam.
25 min.
Co-teachers administer reflection discussion using designated questions to assess understanding.
8 min.